Means for connecting ornamental heads or knobs to curtain-poles or the like.



Patented Nov. 25, I902.

F. K. PHILLIPS, Decd.

P. F. PHILLIPS. Execuirl'x.

MEANS FOR CONNECTING OBNAMENTAL HEADS 0R KNOBS T0 CURTAIN POLES 0 R T H E L l K E.

(Application filed Nov. 16, 1900.)

, (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK K. PHILLIPS, OF WVINSTED, CONNECTICUT; PAULINE F. PHIL- LIPS EXECUTRIX OF SAID-FREDERICK K. PHILLIPS, DECEASED.

MEANS FOR CONNECTING ORNAMENTAL HEADS OR KNOBS TO CURTAINPOLES OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

714,231, dated November 25, 1902.

Application filed November 16, I900. Serial No. 36,681. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK K. PHIL- LIPS, a citizen of the United Stat es, residing in VVinsted, in the county of Litvhfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Connecting Ornamental Heads or Knobs to Curtain-Poles or the Like, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention relates to means for connecting ornamental heads or knobs to poles, the object of the invention being to provide improved means effective to secure a plurality of such members together ih a simple and firm manner, the improvement being especially adapted for fastening heads to the ends of poles or rods and is therefore particularly adapted for use in connection with curtainpoles.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a curtain-pole with this improved fasten ing applied thereto. Fig. 2 is side elevation of one end of a pole with its head separated therefrom. Fig. 3 .is a similar view with its head assembled. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the pole, taken in line a a, Fig. 2, with its walls in position to permit the assemblage of the head; and Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a pole and illustrates the method of assembling the members of this improved fastening.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

This improved fastening may be employed when a plurality of members are to be connected and may be used to unite a member such, for instance, as a headto bed-posts, curtain-poles, and other articles, and comprises in' a general way a split member, a member for receiving such split member, and means for expanding the split member into rigid engagement with the wall of the receiving member.

In Fig. l the improvement is shown applied to curtain-poles. The other figures may be construed as representing either a portion of such pole or a bed-post or other structure having a head or knob. One of the common expedients heretofore employed for securing the heads upon the ends of curtain-poles has been to provide said heads with screws projecting from their inner side,these engaging a plug of wood placed inside each end of the pole, the plug being usually locked in place by the end of the supporting-bracket, which passes through registering apertures in the block and in the pole. This arrangement has proved objectionable on account of the tendency of the screw to work loose in the wood, allowing the head to drop ofi. This difficulty my invention obviates, while it also lessens the cost.

The presentimprovement comprises a split member, designated in a general way by A and shown in the present instance as a hollow rod or tube 2such, for instance, as a curtain-pole-which may, if desired, be formed in sections 2 3, telescopically assembled to render the same adjustable, a receiving member, designated in a general way by B and shown in the present instance as an ornamental head into which the end of the split member projects, and means designated in a general way by C and shown as a plug for expanding the split member within such head. The hollow rod or 'tube is shown split along its'length, as at 4, so as to permit its meeting edges to spring over one another when pressed, thereby to reduce the diameter of the rod at that point which projects into the neck 6 of the head 6, said rod being provided with a circumferential rib or projection 5, located at or adjacent to its end. The rod could be split along only a portion of its length, if desired. The receiving memher or head 6 is shown having an opening of greater diameter than the pole when the latter is in its normal shape, but of less diameter than the outside of the rib.

To assemble the parts, the outer end of the pole is pinched together to assume the position shown in Fig. 4, which decreases its diameter sufficiently to allow it to be introduced into the opening in the head until the rib is inside.

of Wood or any desired material and of somewhat greater diameter than the inside of the tube when the edges are in contact, is inserted in the opposite open end of the pole and forced into the end within the head by a rod To look the tube in the head, a plug 7,

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8. (See Fig. 5.) This plug expands the tube within the head, so that the rib cannot pass through the opening. It will be seen that these parts are now so firmly secured together that they cannot be separated by any force that is likely to be applied to them, nor is there anything in the connection that can gradually work loose.

Apertures 9 may be provided through the walls of the tube near the heads to receive the ends of supporting-brackets in the usual manner.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of an ornamental head provided with an opening; a pole having a split end provided with an annular head on its exterior surface, said split end adapted to be depressed and entered into said opening; and means effective to expand said split end and its head Within said head at the rear or inner side of said opening, said means remaining permanently within said split end to maintain the same expanded.

2. A curtain-pole comprising two tubular telescopic poles or sections each having a split end provided with an annular projection on its exterior; an ornamental sheet-metal head for each section provided with an opening and having larger area than said opening in the rear thereof; the split end of the section with its projection being adapted to be depressed and entered into said opening with its projection adjacent to the opening and at the 'rear or inner side thereof; and a plug effective to expand said split end and its projection within said head, said plug remaining permanently within the split end to maintain the same expanded.

3. The combination of a hollow ornamental sheet-metal head having an opening; a sheetmetal pole projecting into said opening with its inner end in engagement with the inner face of the outer end wall of said head'and having a split end and an exterior annular bead; and a plug expanding said split end and bead within said head at the rear or inner side of said opening.

4. The combination with a pair of telescopic poles or sections,of a hollow ornamental sheetmetal head for the outer end of each section, said head having an opening and also having larger area than said opening in the rear thereof; the section projecting into said head with its end in engagement with the inner face of the outer end Wall of such head and having a split end and an exterior annular bead; and a plug expanding said split end and bead Within said head at the rear or inner side of and adjacent to said opening.

FREDERICK K. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM HOWE, .TosEPH E. BRYAN. 

